Category: dragonforce
RG65/DF65 Race #3 17/8/19
Six RG65 and three DF65 sailors turned out to sail this week, including two welcome DF65 visitors from Gresford. There was a good breeze down the lake from the WNW, leading to plenty of discussion about whether it was an A or B breeze for the RG65 (or perhaps an A or A- depending on your rig wardrobe). All of the DF65’s opted for an A rig to start with. John Brierley had a good start with a 1,2,1 in the first three races until Graham Elliott found his form and won the next four races until there was a break for lunch and a change of batteries for everyone. Andrew Peter had the best morning from the DF65 sailors with visitors Rob Andrew and David Bradley taking a few wins between them. Andrew gave some setup tips to both visitors and racing was very close between them later in the morning.
Having started with a good sailing breeze straight down the lake at the start of the day, it had changed to be well across the lake by the second session, giving a delay whilst the course was angled diagonally across the lake to provide the chance of a windward leg. Graham carried on his winning form from the morning, gaining six wins from the next 8 races sailed, narrowly missing out to Peter Baldwin in those two. Andrew also had the lions share of wins in the DF65 fleet during the afternoon.
Thanks go to Bernie for scoring during the day assisted by Neil after problems forced his early retirement.
The next RG65/DF65 racing day is on Saturday 31st August starting at 11am.
- Graham Elliott Electronica 9 16pts
- Peter Baldwin Pocket Rocket 63 26pts
- John Brierley Pocket Rocket 84 38pts
- Dave Williams Pocket Rocket 33 52pts
- Alan Watkinson Pocket Rocket 23 53pts
- Neil Westbrook Pocket Rocket 103 82pts
DF65
- Andrew Peter 919 15pts
- David Bradley 98 23pts
- Rob Andrews 835 40pts
DragonForce Summer Series #7 14/8/19
After a short delay (and a hot drink) due to a heavy shower passing through, sailing got underway by 11:15 with the majority of the fleet opting to sail in A+ rigs. There were a few strong gusts that caused the boats with A+ rigs to nose dive, but most survived unscathed. The day was setting up to be a close battle between John and Peter, but John had to retire from racing during race 6, leaving Peter with a clutch of 4 wins and the overall win. Neil picked up 2 in his A rig, with Dave W, Alan and Andrew all getting single race wins. The final placings after 10 races were:
- Peter Baldwin 63 15pts
- Alan Watkinson 373 22pts
- Neil Westbrook 03 27pts
- Andrew Peter 919 28 pts
- John Brierley 84 36 pts (1x1st and 4x2nd)
- Dave Williams 233 36pts (1x1st and 1x2nd)
- Derek Matthews 57 40pts
- Dave Pickup 86 49pts
Thanks once again to Ernie and Sally for running the races and the scoring for the day.
DragonForce Summer Series #6 7/8/19
With winds forecast to be in the mid teens and gusting strongly as the skippers arrived, everyone opted to sail in their A rig, only to find that for most of the morning, it was more like A+ wind. A heavy shower at the halfway point in racing led to a tea break whilst the weather cleared. Unfortunately the wind went with the weather and when racing re-started, there was a very light breeze, which fortunately increased after this enforced break.
John once again took the day with eight wins out of the ten sailed, with only Peter managing to take two from him, although some of the finishes were very close.
- John Brierley 84 8pts
- Peter Baldwin 63 15pts
- Andrew Peter 919 24pts
- Dave Williams 233 29pts
- Alan Watkinson 373 32pts
- Dave Pickup 86 44pts
- David Halstead 855 56pts
DragonForce Summer Series #5 31/7/19
There was a decent A rig Westerly breeze down the lake this week for the 7 sailors, which made a change from the norm of A+. Racing was very close in nearly every race with place changes on the final beat into the finish often affecting the race outcome. If a tack was not completed cleanly (usually due to a wind shift as the tack was made), a number of places could easily be lost. John ended up as the clear winner with 7 wins from the 10 races sailed, with Peter second with 2 wins and Dave Williams a consistent 3rd.
Thanks once again to Ernie and Sally for running the races and scoring.
- John Brierley 84 9pts
- Peter Baldwin 63 18pts
- Dave Williams 233 25pts
- Andrew Peter 919 26pts
- Neil Westbrook 03 33pts
- Alan Watkinson 233 37pts
- Colin Deakin 93 50pts
DragonForce Summer Series #4 24/7/19
Another tricky day with the wind not doing the same as the forecast and switching direction several times during this mornings session. There were 14 boats this week with most of the regulars (one of the highest turnouts recently) and another potential new member Dave who had travelled over an hour to sail with us and gain some guidance. Peter took some of the early wins, but then had some difficult races including getting caught up on on mark for over a minute. This left an opening for John who had the best of the later races from the 8 that were sailed. In all there were 5 different race winners and John took the day by one point from Peter, who only beat Neil to second on countback due to his higher number of firsts.
- John Brierley 84 14 pts
- Peter Baldwin 63 15 pts 3x1st
- Neil Westbrook 03 15 pts 1x1st
- Kris Morrow 94 21 pts
- Derek Matthews 57 25 pts
- Dave Williams 233 26 pts
- Alan Watkinson 373 35 pts
- Colin Deakin 93 36 pts
- Andrew Peter 919 41 pts
- Richard Walker 39 44 pts
- Dave Pickup 86 49 pts
- Chris Morrow 194 62 pts
- Bob Davies 72 76 pts
- David Halstead 855 81 pts